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In the chaos it wasn't Blake
surprised its charity among
shards undo shreds of moon
predicate of tern's erratic
is night's latent metronome
bred amid wild cactus spurs
under skin swell and redden
form its chore brisk tipped
nigh emporia classed et see
la ciudad de Alicante tiene
almond-flavored horchatas a
frantic San Juan celebration
abandoned station where oars
pull in careen head and foam-
split sat & gazed peripheral
I didnt want to say that not
at least bend of rhizome tick
it's not leaving to represent
any radical read "approach"

stricken in shell find a dagger
tethered within inculpable miss
"intoned a shuttered stroke":
wanton, weary-eyed, the fun
house walls slant and implode
a history of Buffalo, art, etc.
maritiming et equipage of canal
parlay aphasiac noon knew no
intrepid lips so in transitu
calm as saguaro bludgeon some
day released incarnate rung
does it evoke Unamuno, gallery,
said London angle, hard to pin-
point save irregularly recessed
from the busy street. A dormer
room weaving dusty hallway lest
sower a clutter of corroded pip.
Insert coin for hot water.

___________________________

got shallow "ey" of this
thou write thereof gives
rise a chalk spur elides
when you voiced 1969 did
you think that's 17 year
is that a parallel (what
to their (18 if so there
are at least eight vols.
to be writ, i.e., reply!

encephalitic the axiom lies con-
nives the broker planning "the
revenge of the octet" in which
main players reveal the innate
predicament mimed "quick research"
there's not tha' much to inculcate
somewhere also there was an
esplanade, opening to a circular
peak or focal point of its park.
As occurred perhaps there, on
that bench, and up the road a
store, with at least money for
bread. Then the bench again
as with the line, said people
who are pronouned routine pass
and if you decomposed there it
would only be _yr_ aberration.
blast, I hadn't planned that
thou would read says paradigm
might be seeing they say one
rock plus one is one rock, si?

___________________________

this mise they say to interpret
title as a proposition (hence
"The") it is unrest that follows
hey in phone calls ring to Iberia
West Acton or a northeast coat
lexicographic lines subsequent
attempt - as if defining "quid"
say it at the ranch of cockle
burrs presage ointment lodged
rust breaks pliant facts emerge
that radix sum to rest rolling
stock corroborates full stop.

Tonata

in a certain """version"""
is a certain """"region""""
where i """""controlled"""""
by """"""virtually"""""" BLOATING
____________________________
FROM A CERTAIN """TREE"""
hang orphy & eury
getting the hang of it
[no more needs to be <<>>]
_____________________
hi aline hyaline
where have U bean?
I was <<>> you mean
no i just...
ONLY <<<>>>
__________________________________
(((from my monthly planner)))
"& by meening compounding kimosavee
by the ultratomb *****ROCK*****"
___________________________________
watch a --slice---
of TORTURETTO'S LIFE
____________________________
that'll be ALL mrs phelps
that will phelp
with the clooning AND keaking
while SICCING
_____________________________
to the flit & the PERJUROUS
DON'T BE SEDULOUS
we are clothed & WRITTEN

117

For this narrator at least, owing to the cosmic force
of the post-code book,things no longer fall apart. But
this is not the half; look again. He looked at me in
pure Hungarian. Its members: "river," "wrangling,"
"grazes," "bow,", "stringing animal," "river's poison,"
and "dust." The reader may, perhaps, be surprised,
that instead of endeavoring to revive the patient, the
learned gentlemen should fall immediately into a
dispute on the occasion of his death; but in reality,
all such experiments had been made before their
arrival: for the captain was put into a warm bed, had
his veins scarified, his forehead chafed, and all sorts
of strong drops applied to his lips and nostrils. The
inhumanity of exchange-value is to be exponentially
multiplied in a kind of ecstatic but ironic orgasm over
the indifferent ways of alienation. When he's reached
pure abstraction he's going to take up architecture.
*June 9*--The Minister of Police informs M. de Coulmier
that he may inform the interested party that the
Emperor, in meetings of the Privy Council of April 19
and May 3, has decided to continue Sade's detention.
The thought that I had done some damage to my
employer's Ford was, of course, most alarming and I had
quickly brought the vehicle to a halt. The steps of
the shrine were thronged with kneeling pilgrims, and
Vivaldi, to avoid singularity, kneeled also; till a
high peal of the organ, at a distance, and the deep
voices of choristers announced that the first mass was
begun. I was a tad mogadonic, but that was on account
of being poo-scared. At times, without recognizing
each other, men would embrace as they passed in the
darkness and would then rush to do their job, with
their muscles both excited and softened by that single
caress. Furthermore, a materialist reading of Hegel
allows us to think this negativity as the trans-
subject, trans-ideal, and trans-symbolic movement found
in the *separation of matter*, one of the preconditions
of symbolicity, which generates the symbol as if
through a leap--but never merges with it or with its
opposite logical homologue. He was not a great walker,
but he strolled about the grounds with his cousin - a
pastime for which the wea persistency not allowed for in
Isabel's somewhat lugubrious prevision of the climate;
and in the long afternoons of which the length was but the
measure of her gratified eagerness, they took a boat on
the river, the dear little river, as Isabel called it,
where the opposite shore seemed still a part of the
foreground of the landscape; or drove over the country in
a phaeton - a low capacious, thick-wheeled phaeton formerly
much used by Mr. Touchett, but which he had now ceased to
enjoy. "Some Memories of Pre-Dada: Picabia and
Duchamp" (1949), in _The Dada Painters and Poets: An
Anthology_, ed. Robert Motherwell (New York: George
Wittenborn, Inc., 1951), p. 261. Soon Canterel stopped
with his finger extended towards the interior of the
cage, pointing to the large cylindrical object made of
dark metal, which measured about two feet in diameter
by five feet high. He was caught off balance, he couldn't
disguise it. This was a Sukhanovka method--also used in
Archangel, where the interrogator Ivkov applied it in 1940.
They sat devouring cheeseburgers, fries, and shakes in a
waterfront place full of refugees from the fighting up the
hill, all their eyes, including ones that had wept, now
lighted from inside--was it only the overhead fluorescents,
some trick of the sun and water outside? no. . . too many of
these fevered lamps not to have origin across the line
somewhere, in a world sprung new, not even defined yet,
worth the loss of nearly everything in this one. Of
course, here I am picking out the dominant traits of a
period.

Incurvation

The Raven

So far as I can ascertain from anatomical works at present available,
the origin of the semitendinosus in the Raven seems to be, at least, quite
an uncommon one. Speaking of it for the Apteryx, it" thornier pins and
needles sew after dark thriid a needle the needle pricks by the
prick of their needles O the needles invite tide trickle tickle
trick sacrafice The art of penmenship lit pitt hole hell cherry-pytt
pretty-trick harlit his fish pond and pine trees Is witch Is O pon his
head and (moondisk) is of red jasper and hIs penIs of quartz. His love
leaps[?] on his eyebrows and he opens his mouth to bestow life.
I nsist
that the paper Pan you use be high quality fibres without
alum-rosin (Acid) sizing and with a hare a rose a cock a goat
lude lute nupital squeeze squash In addition to the muscles
already described as belonging to the tongue So woe rose above
love bones which binds blinds the cellulose together in a tree.
II cyst

<MIEKAL AND>

Hike Cue

The glass
11 bugs
late afternoon wind.

You see or I
a departure
from knowing
intended
with meaning.

Thorough see through.

I bet the bottom
for limp of breath,
shaking & saving
the way least
always leads.

& again & against
no corridor filled,
yellers assembled
into approximate
widgets, contractable.

But with 11
buttons I gave
away of least
resistence
nor should hold
back. One solution
at a time is
severest problem
but hold at arm's
abandon
the weight of
service to dreaming.

A psychic drift
as navigated
without theory
of transportation
heated by moonlight
from another day.

If the window is
squeaking or said
to have peered thru.

A novel of sentences
with one word each
has given way to
another monolith
of speech.

The darkness of
task stored in
11 bottles of
slightly cloudy
blue glass.

They are not
in the window
or even on
the shelf of
a forgotten
apothecary.

from Text 2 Box

[front]
what nearly began as the articulation of desire where words were some
'away'... as if in exile" as if the large diorama had lost its labels
COBBLE WOBBLE
begun to name wildly the loosed as if words could so
WALLOFWORDS
become entangled materialy is nothing more to say in that
BOBBLE BRICK-TEXT
apparent beginning nor eamless wall of our words seam
W(H)ORDS WHORL
it seems less now than be spoke that is before we began to
WITH AN `H'
before we began to try bring words back to return them to h
AS IN ISTORY
would be like returning g but there is nothing more to s
OF WORD
there is no apparent b ng nor ending in the seamless wall of o
somewhere 'away'...as if in exile" as if the large diorama had lost i
the curator begun to name wildly seeking to refasten the loosed as if
somehow become entangled materially so there is nothing more to say i
[reverse]
there is no apparent beginning nor ending in the seamless wall of our
CAST SHADOW SHOWS FORM
seamless in that we spoke that is befor
FORM CASTS SHADOWS SHOW
to say it that bring words back to retur
SHOWS SHADOW SHOW
to home in the seaml eamless in that it seems les
CASTS SHOWS
than before SHADOW began to say it that is before we
SHADOWS SHOW
to name wildly the loosed as if words could s
FORMS SHADOW CAST
entangled materially to say in that there is no ap
CASTS FORM
beginning nor ending lost its labels and name wildly s
refasten the loosed, as if we spoke that is before we began to say no
beginning nor ending as if in wildly seeking to refasten loosed there
save words bring back to turn there is nothing more in beginning than
seems less being apparent tangled matter seeking we as if seam in it

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Sea: A Digest Version

these seagreen
sleeperwaves
these
leviathan
their given
random
contemplate
soothe, the crests
isolate
crests various crests
troughs
mull the swell
RIFF

Concrete Redaction for Katie Yates

"There is a relief in struggling with materials, in
"There is a relief in struggling with materials, in
"There is a relief in struggling with materials, in
["I could keep writing
under these conditions..."]
learning about paper, inks and presses."
learning about paper, inks and presses."
learning about paper, inks and presses."
RIFF